What if the ultimate treatment for cancer was closer than most of us realize? A silent revolution has been unfolding recently in the science of natural medicine, bringing us so close to the answer-far too close, for some. Chromogen employee Annika Guthrie understands this more than most. She's watched her terminally ill father add years to his life with natural supplements, and makes it her mission to turn this alternative medicine into what the medical community calls "real" science. It's why she joins forces with the maverick but genius cancer researcher Dr. Elliott Lindell, even though he works with Mitogenica-Chromogen's fiercest competitor. Together, they formulate a cocktail of natural supplements which Annika secretly gives to patients in Chromogen's latest drug trial. The cocktail works so well, it threatens to undermine Chromogen's next billion dollar chemo drug, and Annika's world quickly falls apart. Her wards start curiously dying from everything but their cancer, and Dr. Lindell disappears on the eve of his most critical experiment. Annika soon finds she is the only one left who can recover what remains of Dr. Lindell's work-and that she is racing against someone far larger and more deadly than her worst fears.
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What if there was a sophisticated cocktail of nutritional supplements and Chinese herbs, that could cure most, if not all cancers? A cocktail that had no significant side effects, was inexpensive, and dramatically outperformed every pharmaceutical drug on the market? Would the pharmaceutical industry applaud this cure, stop selling cancer drugs, and move on to other things? Or would they use their billions, their lobbyists, their profit-above-all-else mentality to discredit the cure, destroy the recipe, and otherwise lie, cheat, steal, and murder their way back to the front and center of the war on cancer? This not-so-impossible scenario is the core premise of The Eden Prescription, a whirling dervish of a novel that keeps the reader turning the pages with impeccable dialogue, relentless action, believable characters, up-to-date science, great conspiracy theories, and lots of really old money and priceless antiques. Dr. Elliot Lindell, the novel's protagonist, is a brilliant, ultra-wealthy, renegade scientist on the edge of inventing a world-changing cancer cure and computer model. The three-dimensional model simulates cancer cells dying under the influence of his quintessential mixture of Israeli pomegranate extract, rare Thai ginger, vitamin D, Chinese herbs, and several other supplements. Annika Guthrie, his trusted protegee, is an attractive young graduate student who, as a teenage science prodigy, helped her cancer stricken father extend his life by several years using natural modalities. Though both abhor the industry, they ironically work for competing pharmaceutical companies that have no genuine interest in natural cures. There are several craven antagonists who belong to an exceedingly rich and powerful top secret organization with a dystopian plan to take over the world. They will stop at nothing to get Lindell's recipe and computer model before they get into the hands of suffering cancer patients, and destroy one of the most profitable rackets in history. The good guys are only slightly less unconscionable, but want to keep Lindell and Annika alive for their own exploitative purposes. Both sides have an endless supply of ex special-forces mercenaries with a stellar collection of high-tech guns, bulletproof Range Rovers, speedboats, helicopters, and an aerosol can that sprays an undetectable heart-stopping mist. This is an exceptional piece of fiction. Anyone who knows someone with cancer, or has an interest in natural cures is going to thoroughly enjoy this book, as are fans of conspiracies, mysteries, thrillers, science, computers, and even lovers of romance.
Patty Sutherland -- ForeWord Clarion Review, November 3, 2010: Five Stars (out of Five)
Sinister forces stop at nothing to squelch a medical breakthrough in this adrenalized thriller. You'd think everyone would rejoice over a cure for cancer, but if it's a cheap and un-patentable cure, shadowy interests that profit from cancer treatments may find it more of a threat than a boon. That's what Annika Guthrie and Elliott Lindell, researchers for competing pharmaceutical companies working on concurrent trials for rival chemotherapy drugs, didn't count on. As alternative medicine enthusiasts, the pair have teamed up to secretly give their patients a cocktail of natural supplements and plant extracts formulated by Elliott's brilliant computer model of cancer cells. Annika's joy over the resulting miraculous remissions turns to dismay when said patients start dying off in suspicious accidents. But that's par for the course in a medical-industrial complex where every slovenly lab tech is a spy and paramilitary squads are a cost of doing business. Soon everyone is after Elliott's model, including Russian assassin Sydney (née Stalina) and a sinister outfit known as The Trust that is led by a never-seen man named Smoke whose cigarette-hoarsened voice on speaker-phone tirades suggests a looming need for the cure. Assisted by Annika and her long-suffering husband Peter, Elliott pinballs around the world on a complex and not quite coherent plan to save his life's work (and his life). The author includes a bibliography on natural cancer treatments, but Elliott's all-important cancer model is mainly a MacGuffin that propels a frenetic plot that makes no more sense than is strictly necessary. (One character hits on a strategy so sane and obvious--publicize the formula and sell it out of a Tijuana clinic--that you just know it will end badly.) Fortunately, Evers is a skillful writer who expertly choreographs a sprawling cast of colorful characters. He balances nifty oncology procedural with suspenseful intrigue and taut action scenes that teeter between agonizing stand-offs and jolting shocks. The result is an engrossing, well-paced thriller that will keep your heart rate up. An entertaining debut that's just what the doctor ordered. -- Kirkus Starred Review, November 8, 2010
About the Author
Ethan Evers has a PhD in Applied Science and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. Working for over ten years in Product Development in a Fortune Global 500 company, he is the inventor of technologies covered by over thirty patents granted internationally. Ethan became intrigued by natural medicine when a family member used it to hold her cancer at bay for years before finally succumbing to the terrible disease. After years of researching the subject, he became appalled at how the cancer industry and a very complicit mass media appear to be underreporting-if not ignoring-an ever increasing mass of bona-fide science which supports alternative and natural medicine, even when that science is published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Ethan has worked and lived in the United States, Japan, and Canada, and currently lives in Europe with his family. The Eden Prescription is his first book.
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Hi-tech action with a natural twist that keeps you reading past midnight!,
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This review is from: The Eden Prescription: The war on cancer is not what you think... (Paperback)
I know what it's like to be up against the system. I rejected surgery and chose to heal my precancerous cells (CIN3) with high doses of vitamins and herbal supplements, and against the advice of doctors and my three lifelong friends - a drug researcher, a cancer researcher and a pharmacist. It only took five months for my cells to heal and my friends to be jubilant. Almost five years after my initial diagnosis I am still here, cancer free, and feel like I'm twenty-something. When you're threatened with cancer, you need hope and all the support you can find - like this action packed fictional story decorated with natural healing facts.This book is so action packed that you won't want to put it down. The medical and drug industries of today are ripe for conspiracy theorists to take root on several fronts. For example, you've been warned your whole life against taking too many vitamins and yet over 100,000 deaths occur EACH YEAR in the US from properly prescribed, properly taken medications. There are also 2.2 million US hospital patients reported to have experienced adverse drug reactions EACH YEAR to prescribed medications. Plus, there are attempts to regulate herbal supplements and vitamins worldwide through the World Trade Organization allowing each country's laws to be overridden. Minimal goals for the the WTO would require a doctor's prescription for most natural supplements while others will be completely outlawed. These are today's realities ripe and ready for the masterminds who write conspiracy novels! When I mentioned my friends earlier you might have thought I was starting a bar joke, "A pharmacist, a lab tech, and a drug researcher walked into a bar...," but I was serious. Here are a few tidbits about my friends that are relevant to The Eden Prescription. My friend who performs research on animals for a large drug company freely admits that it's the drug company's marketing department that twists research, creates new products from by-products of failed research, and then creates public demand for it through advertising. My friend who is a 25-year veteran cancer research lab tech has witnessed how foreign students perform lab work for cancer projects at universities for wages slightly above minimum wage. She has advised me on health and warns me about the sickcare industry (her words) like advising me NOT to get annual mammograms to prevent breast cancer; to avoid surgery and drugs whenever possible; to take vitamins and drink green tea; and that eating red meat is a known colon cancer risk. My friend, the pharmacist, also explores botany as a serious hobby. She taught me the meaning of the phrase, "research designed to fail." It's a phrase bantered around the holistic community that I didn't implicitly understand. My friend explained there are two common methods to make research fail. First, study the non-healing part of a plant. For example if a plants' roots contain its medicinal properties, then study the leaves instead. A second way is to dilute the common recommended dose for healing, to a mere fraction of itself. Then study the effectiveness of the highly diluted version. My friend says that most of the research paid for by drug companies on the healing abilities of herbs and plants are done in this manner - they are designed to fail. As for me, my "cancer incident" led me to look for natural cures everywhere. I found a Naturopathic Physician who suggested a protocol known to boost my immune system and help my body to heal itself of cancer. And that's exactly what it did. Important component of that protocal are listed in this book. I also surrounded myself with supportive and hopeful books, videos and articles. It's important to have faith, hope, and support when you choose a more natural cure for cancer. This book offers hope when others around you might fail at supporting you. Buy it now!
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read!! Quite SImply the BEST Thriller I have read in a long time,
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This review is from: The Eden Prescription: The war on cancer is not what you think... (Paperback)
as a journalist, I get sent a lot of books, I am lucky to always have 3-4 new books lying around so I tend to read a bit of this one here and a bit of that one there. As soon as I turned the first page of Ethan Ever's 'The Eden Prescription' I was completely hooked. It's very rare to be drawn into a book from the very first page. I finished this detailed novel in a few short days, I literally read it morning noon and night. It is quite simply one of the best books I have read in a very long time.The Eden Prescription is a Thriller that is based on Fiction but, as you get drawn into the story, you realise it could very well be extremely truthful. For those that are in the know, when it comes to Pharmaceutical companies, they are truly ruling the world with how medicine gets done and how cancer gets treated. People think there are no cures for cancers, but many say that there are, the mainstream media just do not say there is...... This book is about what would happen 'if' someone had found a cure for any type of Cancer. The story line has two central characters, Annika and Dr Lindell. Dr Lindell is an absolute genius of a Scientist who is developing a super computer that can tell what ingredients are needed to cure each cancer a person has. His assistant Annika is helping him with his discoveries and both carry them out in secret, giving patients who are being treated for cancer with a mix of a pharmaceutical companies drug which is being tested before approval before the FDA. Unbeknown to the patients and the drug company, they are giving the patients a cocktail of natural ingredients which is having incredible results. The Cancers are shrinking and disappearing before their very eyes. The patients who do not have the natural mix, are not doing so well and are tending to pass away. Both Annika and Dr Lindell know they are onto a groundbreaking discovery that can change the course of the worlds health and future. The problem is, the powers at be, do not want this discovery getting out so the games begin where almost cancer free patients end up being killed in mysterious circumstances and Annika and Dr Lindell begin to get followed wherever they go. Other people involved begin to get killed and no one knows who is in charge. The book takes you around the world, from Bermuda, to London, to Amsterdam, to Switzerland, to Paris, to America, and Indonesia in a whirlwind adventure. You get to understand how much money is involved with developing new drugs and just what lengths these companies will go to to protect their own interests. There is mystery, action, murder, conspiracy, and on the edge of your seat suspense each and every page. Exceptionally easy to read and follow, you however, begin to not know who are the bad guys as there are several groups trying to get at Dr Lindell and his assistant Annika. This is what makes the book fantastic because there is nothing worse than a story that doesn't surprise you! What is also fantastic about this book is at the end, there is a chapter on all the tests that are going on to prove that things like Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Pomegranete and other natural ingredients do have an incredible effect on cancers. These are referenced for the reader to go and check out. There is also a book list that Ethan read to help him research for his book. Quite simply this book is a must read, and a must recommend to everyone you know! I don't think there would be anyone who wouldn't enjoy it like I did (ok maybe the people who make Pharmaceutical drugs wouldn't really like it!) and once its over, you will be disappointed that it's finished. Although, I have it on good authority there are plans for other books as this will become a series!!!! The book would also make an incredible movie, think James Bond, Mission Impossible style except with a much better storyline and message.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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You won't put it down!,
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A thriller that you keep reading "just a couple more pages" that also makes you wonder if a cancer cure may be closer than you think. A story that shows outstanding character development and significant effort to research a disease that we have all been touched by in some way.
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